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Why doesn't JButton text change?

 
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I changed the text on my JButton and it doesn't change on the screen. I tried:

and


None of this works! What am I doing wrong?
 
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JButton.setText() works for me. My wild guess would be that you have one instance of JButton that you add to the GUI and you create a second one somewhere that you are calling setText() on.
 
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